Although your situation is clearly terrible, how could you expect VRBO, which is only an advertising company, to solve your problem? It was the owner and/or rental manager who screwed you. They should should have stopped advertising on VRBO while the home was for sale, or disclosed that reality in your contract. How do you expect VRBO to know who is, or is not a doofus owner/manager? There's no way. It's up to you, the consumer, to beware of such. Sorry.
